Velocipede.



PATENTED NOV'. 26, 1907.

D. K. WILSON. VELOGIPEDB.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 19, 1907.

' INVENTOR Dalton it. Wilson.

i ATT RNEV UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DALTON K. WILSON, OF WATERLOO, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO THE WILLIAM GALLOWAY COMPANY, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

VELOCIPEDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1907.

Application filed August 19. 1907. Serial No. 389.214:-

citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of WVaterloo, Blackhawk county,

Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Veloeipedes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in velocipedes, and the object of my invention is to provide a hobby-horse toy for children, furnished with propelling mechanism of the nature of a velocipede, but incorporating sev eral novel details of importance, such as means whereby power may be communicated to move the same adapted to be acted upon by the hands and feet of the rider alter nately to produce a cooperating effect thereon. This object I have accomplished by the mechanism which is hereinafter described and claimed, and which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which :the figure depicts in perspective my improved hobby-horse equipped with my improved propelling means, the dotted lines indicating the changed positions of the parts of the mechanism from the positions thereof shown by thefull lines.

The hobby-horse parts of the device consist of a body portion 1, and a movable head portion 17. Secured to the rear part of the body 1 are depending bars 6, whose lower parts are bent and spread apart as shown and provided with registering orifices to receive the ends of the medially cranked axle 5 of the rear wheels whose rims 2 may be fitted with rubber tires 3 if desired. The numeral 22 denotes a saddleon the upper edge of the part 1, formed of blocks extending laterally therefrom and secured thereto.

The lower forward edge of the part 1 is bored to receive a pin 12 extending upwardly from an upright 10 whose forked lower end is furnished with registering orifices to receive the ends of the axle 24 of the front wheel 23.

The upper portion of the upright 10 is bent screw 25. The rods 7 are parallel to each other, and their lower ends are bent outwardly to furnish foot-pieces 9. y The body 1 is, at its forward end, provided with a narrow opening or slot 21 extending from top to bottom midway between its sides, to receive and permit the swinging movement therethrough of the rod 19. This rod, 19 has its middle portion secured within an orifice in the shalt 15, its upper member projecting beyond said slot 21 and into a bored seat in the head-piece 17, so as to permit the latter to freely swing thereon, a pin 20 preventing the latter from slipping oll' said rod. The lower end of said rod projects a short distance below the under part of the slot 21 and is pivotally connected to the forward end of a pitman 4 at a pintle 8, the rear end of said pitman being pivoted on the medial crank of the rear axle 5. A cord 18 may be secured to the nose of the head part 17, ii" desired. On each side of said. head is a projecting handle 16, serving together as a handle-bar by which to turn the head on its pivoted rod 19 l'rom side to side, and thereby swing the rod 14 with its connected upright 1110 and front wheel 23, to change the direction of movement of the device.

When the rider is seated on the saddle 22, grasping the handles 16 with the hands and having the feet on the foot-bars 9, the device is moved forward by simply pushing forward alternately with the hands and feet. As the head 17 is pushed forward and backward, the curved rod 1 1 moves up and down through the perforation in the lug 13, which keeps the head from swaying, except as directed by the movement from side to side of the handles 16. The up and down as well as sidewise movements of the head 17, impart a simulation ol the natural movements of a horse in action in moving forward.

One of the rear carrying-wheels has its hub lixcd to the end ol'- the axle 5 on its side, while the other rear carrying wheel has its hub pivotally mounted on its end of the said axle at 26, and this arrangement, while it permits the lixed wheel to drive the device over the ground, the other pivoted wheel moves easily to allow ol'- easy turning in a small compass of the same.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device ol the character described,

consisting in combination, of a body-piece, a head-piece adapted to rock both laterally and vertically upon said body-piece, a front carrying wheel pivotally connected to said body-piece and slidably connected to said head-piece, rear carrying wheels adapted to support said body-piece, and means for simultaneously vertically rocking said headpiece and rotating said rear carrying wheels.

2. A device of the character described, consisting in combination, of a body-piece, a head-piece adapted to rock both laterally and vertically upon said body-piece, a front carrying wheel pivotally connected to said body-piece and slidably connected to ,said head-piece, rear carrying-wheels adapted to support said body-piece, an axle for said rear carrying wheels, one of said wheels being fixed to saidaxle and the other rotatable thereon, and means for simultaneously vertically rocking said head-piece and rotating said rear axle.

3. A device of the character described,

and projecting thereover and thereunder, a

head-piece pivoted to the upper end of said rod and slidably connected to the upright extending from the guiding wheel, a pitman pivotally connected between the crank of the rear axle and the lower end of the rod secured to said rock-shaft, and a stirrup-rod secured to and depending from each end of said rock-shaft.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 5th day of August, 1907.

- DALTON K. WILSON. Witnesses:

O. D. YOUNG, H. M. HARPER. 

